SLAM Cinema—Playtime at the Saint Louis Art Museum

Date: Friday, March 6
Time: 6–8:45 p.m.
Location: The Farrell Auditorium
Cost: Free

Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with Playtime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern world, this time Paris. The film is in French, English, and German with English subtitles. Not rated. 2 hours, 35 minutes.